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Sale 2683 - Lot 50

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Bandello, Matteo (c. 1480-1562)
Il Primo [-Terzo] Volume delle Novelle del Bandello Novamente Corretto et Illustrato dal Sig. Alfonso Ulloa.

Venice: Appresso Camillo Franceschini, 1566.

Three quarto volumes, woodcut printer's devices to title pages, bound in uniform 18th century full parchment over boards, edges decorated in a mottled red sponge design (discoloration, spotting & waterstains to title of volume one and following leaves; some headlines, signature marks and catchwords cropped with loss; spotting to contents); ex libris Franz Pollack-Parnau, with bookplates; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (3)

Bandello's collection of tales includes Shakespeare's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Much Ado about Nothing, and Twelfth Night. The first English edition was published in 1567.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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